Example sentences of "[v-ing] over and over " in BNC.
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| 1 | My imagination faltered at this point ; but I lingered over it , returning over and over again to the discovery of my heroine 's and my own female body , and the male contemplation of it . |
| 2 | When Christina gave the signal , they both body-surfed for a few minutes before tumbling over and over as the strong current literally threw them onto the shore . |
| 3 | ‘ It would be wasteful for everyone to do the same team training over and over again . |
| 4 | Sitting there , stroking her , the ball of his thumb soothing over and over but never so long in one place that he made her hand sore , he let his voice caress her into sleep whose dream-depths crushed her in peacock and navy . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll make it right , I 'll make it right , ’ Peter was whispering over and over . |
| 6 | When he closed his eyes , the room seemed to be turning over and over , like the Big Wheel at the fairground … . |
| 7 | The Scapegoat appeared unharmed and was clearly visible through the curtain of fire , turning over and over as the Wheel rolled . |
| 8 | The two women in the sombre , fusty dignity of the drawing-room at Buller 's Hill House ; Matthew Choak , trying his uncle 's chair for size ; the little room overlooking the bay where the undertaker kept his secret troubles locked up in a drawer like Pandora 's box ; the Scapegoat turning over and over in its garland of flame ; the clothing , some of it blood-stained , spread out on tables in the police station . |
| 9 | He listened , turning over and over in his hands a black wooden paper-knife with a carved African head on it . |
| 10 | The door came off a shed full of tools , and spades , even , were turning over and over ; while a flock of rods kept for wattling thrust through the air , cruel as arrows . |
| 11 | I do n't think Lou remembers how hard we worked , but it was every weekend for 18 months , going over and over these songs until we had all these dismembered arrangements we became famous for . |
| 12 | If hurtful things have been said to you or about you do n't let your mind keep going over and over them . |
| 13 | ‘ There was n't much point in sitting down and going over and over again into what went wrong at Coventry . |
| 14 | Selecting another piece of grass , he said : ‘ Anyway , I stayed awake until about four this morning , going over and over it in my mind , and when I woke an hour or so later , I had one almighty headache … bloody brass band playing inside the old brainbox … flashing lights before the eyes … the lot ! |
| 15 | But I mean we 've been going over and over that proposal . |
| 16 | When you 've got a six hundred weight bell going over and over it could pull the steeple down . |
| 17 | ‘ In a side street , not far from the burning Palace of Justice , yet out of the way , stood a man , sharply distinguished from the crowd , flailing his hands in the air and moaning over and over again : ‘ The files are burning ! |
| 18 | And Mouse would have had to keep sitting there saying over and over , ‘ Yes , Viola Angotti hit me in the stomach . |
| 19 | ‘ Please God , make Wayne better , ’ she was saying over and over again , then started as Little Chef stood up on his stumpy back legs to lick her hand . |
| 20 | Then he started winding Pilger up , saying over and over again : ‘ Why are n't you editor , then ? ’ |
| 21 | He heard his own voice saying over and over , ‘ Germans . |
| 22 | She breathes her lament into the earth filling her mouth , saying over and over , for the habit of power has made her take the past on her shoulders , ‘ If I could return to that time , I would no longer change men into beasts as I did , and then find myself unable to change them back into men . ’ |
| 23 | What I want you to practice doing is to try and get yourself saying over and over again regardless of how the other person tries to ask you questions to get you out of it , and then swap over . |
| 24 | A headline had grabbed her attention and so she bought the paper and sat in the booth reading over and over again the following morning . |
| 25 | Crossing the hospital courtyard which divided the maternity wing from the general wards and administration building , hearing over and over in his head the words they had gently but coldly told him , the announcement of his son 's death , leaving Lili asleep , carefully sedated , he had lifted his eyes and seen Rufus Fletcher . |
| 26 | Once he ran straight into a thick-stemmed thistle , knocking himself sideways and rolling over and over . |
| 27 | I pull away to do seal impressions , rolling over and over . |
| 28 | Another bar swung into place , another terrible clanging sound , and then Mrs Thatcher said , ‘ The Government is the servant of its people , not its master ’ , her voice echoing over and over again . |
| 29 | Like thunderclaps , echoing over and over . |
| 30 | Night after night with Biff he had shuffled and dealt , bid and bluffed , winning at first , winning over and over . |